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We make the City Time: Saturday 23th of June, between 11am and 12.30pm Playing a game about creating your own color spectrum, join us! By Painting plants – research project, AGALAB. In the botanical garden, AGA LAB Subscription: verfplanten@agalab.nl   Expo: Critical Prints of PEIM In the hallway of AGA LAB   Sex, guns &…

Masterclass during Whitsun weekend (Saturday 19th and Sunday 2oth of May) on the kaleidoscopic possibilities of color and design in silkscreen with the award-winning designer and silkscreen expert Michiel Schuurman. Screen printing is for many people one of the easiest or most accessible printing techniques: until you get to take a good look at Michiel…

In 1958 (60 years ago) the AGA LAB was founded as an artist initiative, the former Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier. During sixty years the studio has been able to develop and rejuvenate itself. To celebrate this we call on all artists who have worked or are still working at AGA LAB to make an artwork for…

Workshop at AGA LAB Making natural paint and its application in printing techniques. Saturday the 14th of April the workshop “Making natural paint” will be organized, where we will share our experience after 6 years of research in and around AGA. We will focus on the process: starting with growing the plants, to extracting the paint, and eventually applying…

Last year, we and all other tenants of the BOUW incubator have again worked hard in a place where making, building and crossovers are central. The AGA LAB also opens its doors this Friday night and gives you an insight into what has been made in the past year. Plus Zedz, artist-in-residence of December, will print live.…

On the 9th of december from 16:00 – 20:00 you are very welcome to attend an afternoon of book presentations, music and live printing: the newest Art Prison publication by Zoran Pungerčar will be presented; Astrid Florentinus newest book “Sphere” will be released; Zedz will present his work and there will be a performance by…

It’s time for a new era in Arabic Type design! We invite you to join us on Friday November 10th to the final of East Type West Type! The panel and the reflection are the wrap-up of the project East Type West Type in which international designers and performers have participated. The panel will focus…

The analogue dark room for black and white photography will be taken into use in November and Clarke Cole will assist AGA LAB. She will be available on a regular Saturday of the month. Make an appointment on time to use the dark room.

The silk screen department has a new filter installation. It’s very environmentally and user friendly. This is made possible due to the financing of Prince Bernhard Cultural Fund and Fonds Kwadraat.

At the end of July Kristien van den Oever, director of AGA LAB, joined the Frans Masereel Center (FMC) in Kasterlee, Belgium. In the autumn of 2017 Sofie Dederen, director of the FMC, will be repaying the visit. Previously, Ivan Durt and Tom Dries visited AGA LAB to find out more about the ‘daily usage’…